Shahbaz calls for revolution

ISLAMABAD/MULTAN - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday that solution to all problems faced by Pakistan lay not in assemblies but on roads, asking the youth to join hands with him for launching a Save Pakistan Movement from Multan after Eid. In the computerized draws, the names of 1,554 successful applicants, who applied for the taxi cabs in Rawalpindi, Chakwal, Attock and Jhelum, have been announced. In Rawalpindi city, a total of 840 taxi cabs were given to the applicants. The officials informed that they had received 70,000 applications for the provision of 20,000 yellow cabs in Punjab. Addressing a Yellow Cab Scheme balloting ceremony here at Multan and Rawalpindi Arts Council, he said Pakistanis have to launch a strong movement to get rid of those, who picked the pockets of pilgrims, refused to implement supreme courts verdicts and who were involved in NICL scandal. He said the corrupt group sitting in Islamabad would flee the country whenever the youths came out on roads. He said, We lost the Pakistan that was achieved after millions of sacrifices. We need a revolutionary movement with renewed passion to save the country. He said European countries enforced Misaq-e-Madina in their societies in true sense and offered services like free education, equal opportunities and shelter to all the citizens but not even a glimpse of this could be seen in our Muslim country. He regretted that lawlessness, corruption and price hike had plagued Pakistani society. Shahbaz said corruption, bribery and safarish weakened the very foundations of Pakistan. Now we need to replace this rotting system. Swapping mere faces will achieve nothing, he asserted. He said that everyone has to render sacrifice for rule of law in the country. He said those creating hurdles in way of Nandipur and Chichoki Malian power projects, actually wanted to plunge the nation in darkness. They should be hanged at chowks, he demanded. He said the projects were intentionally shelved despite advance payment of billions of rupees to the companies. Its been over two years that billions of rupees from national exchequer have been paid for these projects but their files are stuck in ministry of law because of non-payment of bribe, he maintained. He said that new records of corruption were set by current federal government. He said target killing in Karachi was horrifying and those sending bodies in sacks should be hanged publicly. He said that the only way to maintain peace in Karachi was to give stiff punishments to target killers and extortionists. He said the motive behind launching Yellow Cab Scheme was to employ jobless youths of the country. He said another phase of the project would be launched to give cars to those, who could not get the same in first balloting. He said he could swear that the ballot was held transparently and no safarish was accepted. He said the project cost Rs. 12 billion and 20,000 cars would be given to jobless youth on merit. Meanwhile, the chief minister also announced a number of new projects for Multan. The projects included medical university, women university, engineering university, construction of Hafiz Jamal, Multan-Makhdoom Rasheed and Delhi Gate roads and establishment of hockey and football stadiums. Earlier in Dera Ghazi Khan, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif demanded of the government to constitute a judicial commission comprising judges of the Supreme Court in the light of allegations levelled by Zulfiqar Mirza. The chief minister asked for a stern action against those found guilty in the investigations. South Punjab is on our priority and starting of Yellow Cab Scheme from Dera Ghazi Khan is an obvious evidence of it, he said. He said that the scrutiny of the documents of the applicants would be made and committees in this regard had been constituted at division level. Commissioner of the respective divisions will lead these committees while retired judges of high court will look into the objections, he said. He said the population of Southern Punjab is 31 per cent but on the direction of PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif 40 per cent quota in Yellow Cab Scheme had allocated for Southern Punjab. He said that Yellow Cab Scheme had been launched with a cost of Rs5 billion. He said that all Danish schools that had been established or going to be establish only in Southern Punjab were the proof that how much the government keen to develop the Southern Punjab.

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